Posts by hoser

i've just ordered something from a bizness up in canadia, and the guy is telling me delivery may be slow because the canadian post office is on "partial" strike.

is he telling me the truth, or is he a hoser?

eh?.

hoser

"Is he telling me the truth, or is he a hoser? Eh?"

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magazine supply reduction

by agent zero in

at the meeting tonight was read a letter to all congregations in canada.

it explained that since most publishers end up with left-over public edition magazines that didn't get placed at the end of each month, they will now no longer continue to have an individual magazine order per publisher.

instead, the entire congregation's supply of service edition magazines will be in a stack at the back of the kh, and they are to be taken according to need, with whatever is left over after service to be put back in the stack.

hoser

They're going broke.....

very slowly and painfully

but they're still going broke

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Do you know of any witnesses that went to Jail/Prison? What did they do?

by Iamallcool in

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hoser

lamallcool check ur pm

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Do you know of any witnesses that went to Jail/Prison? What did they do?

by Iamallcool in

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hoser

One guy I know did time for fraud like about half a million'

He wasn't DF'd though and still is in our congo

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The Hunley and the last days

by hoser in

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the watchtower wants us to believe that world war 1 brought all kinds of new weapons into warfare and that is why it is different from previous wars.

the following is a quote from the july 15/83 wt.. .

" there was an escalation of violence in the world before the great delugeuntil god himself executed judgment in bringing to ruin those who were ruining the earth.

hoser

@JeffT

thanks I never heard of the turtle until now pretty neat stuff!

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The Hunley and the last days

by hoser in

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the watchtower wants us to believe that world war 1 brought all kinds of new weapons into warfare and that is why it is different from previous wars.

the following is a quote from the july 15/83 wt.. .

" there was an escalation of violence in the world before the great delugeuntil god himself executed judgment in bringing to ruin those who were ruining the earth.

hoser

The watchtower wants us to believe that World War 1 brought all kinds of new weapons into warfare and that is why it is different from previous wars. the following is a quote from the July 15/83 WT.

" There was an escalation of violence in the world before the Great Deluge—until God himself executed judgment in bringing to ruin those who were ruining the earth. (Genesis 6:13, 17) From the time of Noah’s great-grandson Nimrod, the “mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah,” there has again been an escalating of violence through the ages, perhaps gradual at first, but steadily gaining momentum. (Genesis 10:1, 6, 8, 9) There came in time the sword, the bow and arrow, the spear; and in more modern times the musket, the cannon and other firearms. But World War I, starting in 1914, brought astonishing new weapons of violence—the airplane, the tank, and also poison gas. In that war, use of the submarine caused much terror and machine guns took literally millions of lives."

I always took this that they were saying that submarines and machine guns were first used in WW1 while in fact machine guns were in use in the 1880's and the Hunley, a submarine, was used in the american civil war.

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The next time a JW tries to tell you that natural disasters are a sign of the end...

by JimmyPage in

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... tell them to check this out:.

from weather.com, the 10 biggest natural disasters, 8 of which occurred before 1914:.

great hurricane of 1780 (barbados, st. lucia, 22,000 dead).

hoser

I like to tell them of the great famine 1315-1317 where it rained so much that europe had 3 total crop failures in a row.

Great Famine

In the spring of 1315, unusually heavy rain began in much of Europe. Throughout the spring and summer, it continued to rain and the temperature remained cool. These conditions caused widespread crop failures. The straw and hay for the animals could not be cured and there was no fodder for the livestock. The price of food began to rise. Food prices in England doubled between spring and midsummer. Salt, the only way to cure and preserve meat, was difficult to obtain because it could not be evaporated in the wet weather; it went from 30 shillings to 40 shillings. In Lorraine, wheat prices increased by 320 percent and peasants could no longer afford bread. Stores of grain for long-term emergencies were limited to the lords and nobles. Because of the general increased population pressures, even lower-than-average harvests meant some people would go hungry; there was little margin for failure. People began to harvest wild edible roots, plants, grasses, nuts, and bark in the forests. [ 3 ] There are a number of documented incidents that show the extent of the famine. Edward II, King of England, stopped at St Albans on 10 August 1315 and no bread could be found for him or his entourage; it was a rare occasion in which the King of England was unable to eat. [ 4 ] The French, under Louis X, tried to invade Flanders, but being in the low country of the Netherlands, the fields were soaked and the army became so bogged down they were forced to retreat, burning their provisions where they left them, unable to carry them out. [ 5 ]

In the spring of 1316, it continued to rain on a European population deprived of energy and reserves to sustain itself. All segments of society from nobles to peasants were affected, but especially the peasants who represented 95% of the population and who had no reserve food supplies. [ 6 ] To provide some measure of relief, draft animals were butchered, seed grain was consumed, children were abandoned to fend for themselves (see "Hansel and Gretel"), and some elderly people voluntarily refused food in order to provide nourishment needed for the younger generation to survive. The chroniclers of the time wrote of many incidents of cannibalism. [ 7 ]

The height of the famine was reached in 1317 as the wet weather continued. Finally, in the summer the weather returned to its normal patterns. By now, however, people were so weakened by diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis, and so much of the seed stock had been eaten, that it was not until 1325 that the food supply returned to relatively normal conditions and the population began to increase again. Historians debate the toll but it is estimated that 10–25% of the population of many cities and towns died. [ 7 ] While the Black Death (1338–1375) would kill more people, it often swept through an area in a matter of months whereas the Great Famine lingered for years, drawing out the suffering of populace

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Is there a correlation between personality type and leaving the WT?...

by Tuesday in

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on facebook tonight there was a post asking to take a personality test, in posting the personality tests a trend started emerging that certain personality types seem to leave around the same time.. i came out as an intj which is introverted intuitive thinking judging.

which a good paragraph describing it was:.

intjs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "does it work?

hoser

INTJ